“No, I’m not pretentious” | EUROtoday

En type, Michel Polnareff gave his first live performance final week in London and can launch within the spring of Bourges, on April 15, which he known as to giggle at his “behind tour”. Among his highlights, the Zenith in Caen, on May 6, and the Accor Arena, in Paris, on June 14. In the method, he releases a brand new album A time for themwho will probably be within the bins on April 25. Eight chiseled love songs, of traditional bill, between piano and huge orchestral flights supported by a excessive, stable voice that has not modified.

At 80, the singer left California to win again his viewers, after his tour Polnareff sings Francein 2023, through which he resumed his classics. Enough to erase the dangerous reminiscence of his earlier tour (2016), brutally interrupted for well being issues, and the failure of his album Finally (2018).

A couple of days in the past, he promoted in a Versaillais palace, everlasting white glasses, an unique yellow shirt open to his tanned chest and lined with gold pendants. Planted in entrance of him on a base, his orange iPhone which he by no means leaves.

The level :: What does this new album signify for you, A time for them ? A reappearance, a rebirth?

Michel Polnareff: Somewhat all that. Let’s say that I wished to come back again to the stage with new songs that I believe lots. I put numerous myself on this new album that I discover actually extra profitable than the earlier one.

Is this album a method to erase the failure of the earlier one, Finallylaunched in 2018?

No. It was reasonably welcomed as a result of it was not nicely engraved. There was a mistake, everybody thought it was a nasty combine, nevertheless it was a nasty engraving. I do not prefer to look again. It’s a previous!

Your voice has not moved. Is it elevated, organized within the studio?

No, I’m very fortunate. She hasn’t modified very similar to my piano sport: it is an on a regular basis miracle.

This new lap is known as Ma behind tour. A nod to your poster the place you appeared naked ass together with your white glasses, on the time of the “Polnarévolution” in 1972?

It’s a method to have enjoyable, to play with phrases. This is to say that it isn’t the final, after all. The relaxation are bullshit.

Do you discover that our time has grow to be too severe?

Yes, we lack fantasy, humor. The second diploma now not has its place. We have grow to be autistic with one another.

The album is known as A time for them And the opening tune “A time for her”. Why this plural and this singular? A coquetry?

No, it is a volunteer. “For them” is geared toward all the ladies who’ve accompanied my life. And “for her” marks a romantic relationship which, right this moment, actually counts, I hope.

On a brand new tune, “Sexcetera”, you speak about gender, sexual freedom, as many themes that you’ve got all the time worn. What message do you wish to convey right this moment, even when you have a reactionary handled?

React? I do not know why. There is not any motive. I have never modified. I merely say, “Do what you want with your body and your ass, as long as you do not touch mine”. Everyone is free. Today, with gender, race theories and others, we dwell in a everlasting prohibition, it is fairly difficult. It is a manner of placing issues so as and recalling that I’ve all the time been on the aspect of sexual freedom.

How do you take into account France since you reside in California?

I believe politicians have arrange a type of barnum rock through which they use precedence with out actually giving folks pleasure. Unlike artists, in any case the true ones, who’re there to offer and to not take. Which is crucial. For instance, I intend to please and provides pleasure to the general public. I entice his votes however I don’t steal something from him and he thanks me, which touches me as a lot besides greater than the Bravos.

How to outline the Polnareff fashion right this moment?

Resolutely pop, timeless, timeless as a result of, for me, it’s a fashion which, I imagine, has not aged and stays very hooked up to my character. There are individuals who assume I’m pretentious, however I’m not. Nor humble both as a result of it could be hypocritical. What I do, I take it very severely, with out taking myself severely.

There is a protracted absence in your profession, from 1974 to 2007. Why this thriller round you?

There is not any calculation on my half. The thriller round me comes from all my private troubles and my lengthy absence of the media, which imagined their very own eventualities. But I hadn’t disappeared. I simply wished to dwell my life and escape the hellish spiral of this job the place it’s difficult to take a break to recharge your batteries. I don’t remorse something as a result of I had thrilling experiences and I’ve traveled numerous incognito. Today, it is totally different, I transfer on, I come again on stage and I’m blissful.

Always amazed by the steps of pc big?

Yes, I’m all the time shocked and curious to seek out out extra. I keep in mind that I had purchased my first laptop computer a very long time in the past, a Rocket at Radio Shack, in Los Angeles. It was small, with solely 16 Bytes that I elevated to 32. It was Stevie Wonder who had proven me the right way to do it. I felt like I had a bomb in my fingers, prone to blow up the town at any time. And look right this moment, I’ve an iPhone with eight million bytes inside. This factor is large!

You by no means go away it?

To uncover



The kangaroo of the day

Answer

Ah no, it is my pal!

New album A time for them (at Warner), accessible on April 25. Among the dates of the tour: Lyon, May 24, Caen, May 4, Brussels, May 17, Lyon, May 24, Marseille, June 4, Accor Arena, June 14, Rennes, June 20, Brest, June 25, Nîmes on July 11.